Mail-bag-holding device



Sept. 29, 1925.

' 1,555,583 J. M. JORDAN I MAIL BAG HOLDING DEVICE Filed April 1, 1924 Patented Sept. 29, 1925.

UNITED STATES JESSIE M. JORDAN, or WAGO, TEXAS.

MAIL-BAG-I-IOLDING DEVICE.

Application filed April 1, 1924. Serial No. 703,458.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jnssm M. JORDAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waco, in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Bag-Holding Devices, or which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mail bag holding devices, and it consists in the novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide a mail bag holding device, of simple and durable arrangement, and adapted to be manipulated, whereby the bag of mail may be passed from the crane to a car, which moves by a crane structure, and, simultaneously, a bag of mail may be passed from the car to the crane.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of a car, with the bag catcher and holder applied.

ldigure 2 an enlarged transverse sectional view'of one of the hinge members of the bag holder cut on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawing, a portion of a car body is shown at 20, said car body having a door opening 21. A bag catching book 22 is pivoted upon the body 20. at one side or the door opening 21. Brackets 23, are mounted upon the body 20 at the opposite side of the door opening 21. Hinge members 24 are slidably mounted upon the intermediate portions of the brackets 28, and may be turned upon the said brackets. The hinge members 24 are provided with converging inner edges 25. Traction springs 26 are connected with the hinge members 24 and bridge the spaces between them, and are under tension with a. tendency to normally pull the converging edges of the hinge members 24 toward each other. A bag holding frame 27, is provided with ball 4! ends 28, which are received between the hinge members 24, and which are frictionally engaged by the inclined edges 25 of said hinge members. The frame 27 is made of an iron rod, and is provided at its in n termediate points with a loop 29, in which a hook may engage, when the frame 27 and the bag 30 carried thereby is removed from the side of the car body 20.

A spring 31 is mounted on the car and is disposed to bear against the lower hinge member 24 so as to urge the frame extended outwardly from the car. Thus as the car moves along, a suitable crane structure, not shown, may engage the loop 29 for disein gaging the frame 27 from the hinge members 24.

Having described the invention, what is claimed is:

A. mail bag holding device including a support, a. pair of brackets mounted in spaced alined relationship on the support, hinged members on the brackets each including a pair 0]": bars pivoted and slidable on the respective brackets, the inner surfaces of the bars diverging inwardly toward the brackets and springs connected to the bars, a bag holder terminating in enlargements adapted to be received between the bars of the hinge members by means of the springs.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JESSIE M. JORDAN. 

